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Aşk bir türkünün ardında...Aşk bir ozanın sazında...Aşk bir şairin sözünde...Aşk insanın özünde...
FOLK MUSIC
I was born in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary and grew up in an open-minded family of colourfully mixed origin. As a child there was a shorter period in my life when my family hosted Arabian and Vietnamese students whom I spent much time with we presented each other with the joy of singing, talking and dining together. Those wonderful songs from Yemen sung by our friends in the afternoons and evenings have still been in my heart. In my childhood I had been studying piano for 7 years. Much later I started my journey towards the East, exactly to Turkey, which became a journey that really determined my future life. "I arrived home". During my journeys I also got acquainted with the language and that many-sided music culture that Turkey has, mainly the Turkish folk music.
We established the Arasinda Orchestra in Budapest in 1996 which played Turkish folk music and I had been its singer and front woman for 10 years. We published two records called Aşkın şarabı (The Wine of Love) and Ne olursan ol (Whoever you are). While I was studying singing from the Iraqi composer and musician Moofed Alnasih playing the oud and violin, I did my best to travel to Turkey every year, to visit the country, to sing and learn.
In 2006 the doors to the Balkans also opened for me due to an interesting encounter. I am the singer and the founder of the Dilber Orchestra who plays South-Slavonic, mainly Bosnian, Serbian and Balkan Roma folk music beyond the Turkish folk music. There is a musical bridge between these counties and cultures which connects them closely to each other. The word of Persian origin called Dilber also refers to this; this word as a musical stream came from Persia / Dilber: bringing love/ through Turkey / Dilber: wonderful woman/ up to the Balkans /Dilber: lover, darling/ where it stopped.
Anatolia and Balkans have an extremely colourful and wonderful world of music with a lot of common characters but also exciting differences. Through music you can go on a special journey as if you were travelling with a caravan stopping sometimes at a pub, a khan; where the musical instruments and a song can be heard, ranging from the wonderful but hard melodies of East Turkey to the sweet music of the Black Sea region. Then the mysterious world of Bosnia starts glinting or a Roma song by the fire at night....
As the famous Turkish song says: "Uzun ince bir yoldayim, gidiyorum gündüz gece... "I am walking on a long and narrow road, I keep going day and night..."/ I am on the go.
Nací en Budapest, capital de Hungría, y me formé en una família de mentalidad liberal y de orígen mixto. Cuando era niña, durante un tiempo mi familia alojó estudiantes árabes y vietnamitas con los cuales yo pasaba mucho tiempo, regalándonos uno al otro la alegría de cantar, charlar y comer juntos. Todavía guardo en el corazón esas canciones preciosas de Yemen que nos cantaban nuestros amigos por las tardes y noches. De niña, estudié piano durante 7 años. Mucho tiempo después, comencé mi viaje hacia el Oriente, más precisamente a Turquía, un viaje que realmente determinó mi vida. Llegué a casa. Durante mis viajes, también me familiaricé con el idioma y la cultura musical de gran diversidad del país, en primer lugar con la música tradicional turca.
Fundamos la Orquesta Arasinda en Budapest en 1996, un grupo que tocaba música tradicional de Turquía. Fuí la cantante y la líder del grupo por diez años. Grabamos dos discos con los títulos Aşkın şarabı (Vino del amor) y Ne olursan ol (Quién seas). Mientras estudiaba canto con el compositor y oudista-violinista iraquí Moofed Alnasih, yo hacía lo que podía por visitar Turquía cada año para cantar y aprender.
En 2006, las puertas de los Balcanes tambíen se abrieron ante mí a causa de un encuentro interesante. Soy la cantante y fundadora de la Dilber Orquesta con la cual tocamos música tradicional sudeslava, principalmente de Bosnia, Serbia y de los gitanos de los Balcanes además de la música folklórica de Turquía. Existe un puente musical entre estos países y culturas que los conecta íntimamente. La palabra Dilber, de origen persa, se refiere a esto. La misma palabra llegó como un arroyo musical desde Persia (Dilber: traer el amor) a través de Turquía (Dilber: una mujer maravillosa) hasta los Balcanes (Dilber: amante, querida).
Anatolia y los Balcanes tienen un mundo musical de extrema diversidad y belleza con muchos rasgos en común, pero tambíén con diferencias fascinantes. Por la música se experimenta un viaje especial como si viajase con una caravana que a veces descansa en un bar o un khan; donde se escuchan instrumentos y la voz de un cantante; desde las melodias bellísimas pero difíciles del este de Turquía hasta la música meliflua de la región del Mar Negro. Luego surgen melodías del mundo misterioso de Bosnia o de una canción gitana al lado del fuego del campamento por la noche...
Como dice la famosa canción turca: ‘Uzun ince bir yoldayim, gidiyorum gündüz gece...’ (Sigo caminando por un camino largo y estrecho, y no paro ni de día, ni de noche). Yo sigo caminando.


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